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Old 12-18-2007   #6 (permalink)
Jarod
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Re: How to work with regular expressions

> > What if I want to have just those matched numbers?
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> You can access what's been matched by your entire pattern with $matches[0]
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> > Later on I'd like to convert it to a number so if it's
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> I spent ages trying to figure out how to do this. It seemed odd to me that
> you can conver a number to a string using .tostring but can't convert a
> string to a number using .tonumber (no such thing). Instead, do this:
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> $i = "00001"
> $numeric_i = [int] $i
>
How can i find such things in manual ? It looks like old good .net type
casting But in .net at least in c# you use (int) not [int].. It would be
better if they left this like it was

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